Very welcome Andy. I'm on vacation this week so haven't fully vetted the rules but seem reasonable at first glance. I never thought that frontrunning a TLD that had yet to exist would provide any advantage in a LRO. From: Andy Abrams [mailto:abrams@google.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 01:32 PM To: Phil Corwin Cc: bc-gnso@icann.org <bc-gnso@icann.org> Subject: Re: [bc-gnso] New US trademark rules likely to exclude many dot-brand gTLDs | DomainIncite - Domain Name News & Opinion Thanks for sending, Phil. I think these rules are very reasonable - it's just unfortunate that the prohibitions on front-running and registering generic terms were not incorporated into the LRO guidelines earlier. It would have saved everyone a lot of time and money. Andy On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 10:14 AM, Phil Corwin <psc@vlaw-dc.com<mailto:psc@vlaw-dc.com>> wrote: http://domainincite.com/14139-new-us-trademark-rules-likely-to-exclude-many-... Philip S. Corwin, Founding Principal Virtualaw LLC 1155 F Street, NW Suite 1050 Washington, DC 20004 202-559-8597<tel:202-559-8597>/Direct 202-559-8750<tel:202-559-8750>/Fax 202-255-6172<tel:202-255-6172>/Cell Twitter: @VLawDC "Luck is the residue of design" -- Branch Rickey Sent from my iPad -- Andy Abrams | Trademark Counsel Google | 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 (650) 669-8752<https://www.google.com/voice#phones>